Condense
[kən'dens] or [kən'dɛns]
Definition
(verb.) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; 'water condenses'; 'The acid distills at a specific temperature'.
(verb.) compress or concentrate; 'Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan'.
(verb.) develop due to condensation; 'All our planets condensed out of the same material'.
(verb.) become more compact or concentrated; 'Her feelings condensed'.
(verb.) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; 'The cold air condensed the steam'.
(verb.) remove water from; 'condense the milk'.
Typed by Ellie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
(v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
(v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
(v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
(v. i.) To undergo polymerization.
(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.
Checked by Felicia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Compress, consolidate, concentrate; make dense, compact, or close; press together.[2]. Abridge, abbreviate, shorten, epitomize, reduce, diminish, contract, curtail.[3]. Reduce to a liquid state.
v. n. [1]. Grow dense.[2]. Become liquid.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
v.t. to compress or reduce by pressure into smaller compass: to reduce to a denser form as vapour to liquid.—n. Condensabil′ity the quality of being condensable.—adj. Condens′able capable of being compressed.—v.t. Condens′āte to condense: to compress into a closer form.—v.i. to become dense: to harden:—pr.p. condens′āting; pa.p. condens′āted.—ns. Condensā′tion act of condensing; Condens′er an apparatus for reducing vapours to a liquid form: an appliance for collecting or condensing electricity.
Editor: Pierre
Examples
- A great amount of heat was lost whenever the cold water was let into the cylinder to condense the steam, and this loss vastly increased the expense of running the engine, and cut down its power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Other substances also come off in gaseous form, but they condense in the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Let me condense now. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In Section 23 we saw that a fall of temperature caused water vapor to condense or liquefy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The condensed steam escapes at _w_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1824 Bussy condensed sulphurous acid vapors to liquid form. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But the upper air may be more condensed by cold than the lower air by pressure; the lower more expanded by heat than the upper for want of pressure. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Every time we squeeze the bulb of an atomizer, we force compressed or condensed air through the atomizer, and the condensed air pushes the liquid out of the nozzle (Fig. 51). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They taught also how the gas should be distilled, condensed, cleaned, scrubbed, confined in retorts, and its flow measured and controlled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet as in Newcomen’s engine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The expression of Wildeve's face became curiously condensed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Each condensing surface is connected with earth by an electrical conducting wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The heat given out by the condensing steam passes into the surrounding air and warms the room. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The high-resistance secondary circuit of an induction coil is located in circuit between the condensing surface and the ground. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Stephenson did for the locomotive what Watt did for the condensing engine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He therefore closed the cylinder and provided a separate condensing vessel into which the steam was led after it raised the piston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In that way the air pressure did the work of lifting the weight, and the necessary vacuum was obtained by forming steam and then condensing it in the cylinder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- If one holds a cold lid in the steam of boiling water, drops of water gather on the lid; the steam is cooled by contact with the cold lid and _condenses_ into water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This is because the water vapor in the air becomes chilled by contact with the glass and condenses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Fog is formed when vapor condenses near the surface of the earth, and when the drops are so small that they do not fall but hover in the air, the fog is said not to lift or not to clear. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After the steam has spent itself in turning the turbine, it condenses into water and makes its escape through openings in an inclosing case. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- E is a diverging tube which receives the water injected by the jet of steam that condenses at I, and imparts to the water a portion of its speed in proportion to the pressure of the boiler. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Often leaves and grass and sidewalks are so cold that the water vapor in the atmosphere condenses on them, and we say a heavy dew has formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Editor: Maris